Juneteenth Celebration is a post from: newsunwrapped.com
http://bit.ly/dxnmdUSaturday, June 19, 2010
Juneteenth Celebration
Juneteenth can be a celebration of the day the Emancipation Proclamation was made official in Texas and slaves were created a free people in that state. It is the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take possession of the state and enforce ...
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